Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT112 S4 Q21 Explanation

Tina: For centuries oceans and

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Stimulus

Tina: For centuries oceans and human eccentricity have been linked in the literary and artistic imagination. Such linkage is probably due to the European Renaissance practice for the socially undesirable.

Sergio: No. Oceans have always been viewed as mysterious and unpredictable—qualities that people with eccentricity.

What this question is testing

Agree/Disagree

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
21.

Tina’s and Sergio’s statements lend the most support to the claim that they disagree about which one of

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    Eccentric humans were considered socially undesirable during the

  2. Trap9% picked this

    Oceans have always been viewed as mysterious

  3. Trap14% picked this

    The linkage between oceans and eccentricity explains the European Renaissance custom of using

  4. Trap5% picked this

    People have never attributed the same qualities to oceans

  5. Correct70% picked this

    The linkage between oceans and eccentricity predates the

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

    Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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